Re: FN-FORUM Networking PCs & sharing peripherals

date posted 27th June 2002 12:38

This might not give you an accurate test platform, as you'd have to use
FAT32 on the system partition, whereas native XP systems are more likely to
have NTFS. Have you considered buying those hard drives in caddies and
swapping your OS like that? I know it means rebooting, but it means you can
have a set of test platforms that aren't compromised by sharing with another
OS.

Kathy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick de Voil" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 11:55 AM
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM Networking PCs & sharing peripherals


> Thanks Darren,
>
> > You don't necessarily need to buy new systems to install
> > ME and XP on. Have you considered partitioning your
> > hard drives and running different OS's on the partitions.
>
> I considered it, but I didn't want to have to reboot all the time. Also I
> was frightened of messing up all my work and existing software. Besides
> which, my existing desktop is really creaking already - it's not a
> particularly high spec and it's already running Apache, PWS, ColdFusion,
> PHP, JRun, SQL Server and MySQL, to name but a few. But on second
> thoughts, I could just get one new box instead of two, and put XP and ME
> both on it. Good idea. I'd still have to do all the networking, but it
> would save the cost (and space) of one PC.
>
> Thanks
>
> Nick
>
>
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